Analaysis: The ‘five pandemics’ driving 1 million U.S. Covid deaths

The 'five pandemics' driving 1 million U.S. Covid deaths STAT analyzes the data to show how five key factors worked to drive U.S. Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic, yielding "five pandemics." J. Emory Parker STAT

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One way to start understanding how a country as advanced as the U.S. lost so many people is to look at the ocean of public health data that was gathered as 1 million individual tragedies rippled through civic life.

Analysis of the data will continue for years, but it is clear that, when it comes to deadliness, there were five different pandemics — depending on when and where you lived, and who you were.

• • Earlier vs. later
  • Older vs. younger (but there’s fine print)
  • Unvaccinated vs. vaccinated
  • Rural vs. urban
  • Poorer vs. wealthier
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